PAM-RTM simulation process

How to efficiently evaluate manufacturing strategies and optimize process parameters?

At the dawn of the massive use of composite materials in every industry, the need for simulation tools empowering the engineers’ creativity and productivity is important.

Liquid Composites Molding (LCM) is a longstanding industrial manufacturing process of resin injection through fibrous reinforcements. Widely used in the composites industry, especially for structural thermoset matrix composite parts, LCM offers a great potential for creating structural components with high price/performance ratio.

Through its breakthrough technology, PAM-RTM simulation software allows designers and process engineers to dramatically decrease development as well as production time and cost.

PAM-RTM is a cost effective simulation tool which covers a wide range of LCM manufacturing processes: Resin Transfer Molding (RTM), Vacuum Assisted RTM (VARTM), Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion (VARI), Compression Resin Transfer Molding (CRTM and A-CRTM)…

It minimizes the risk of producing defective parts and helps master tool design and manufacturing process. PAM-RTM provides rapid solutions for preliminary design, as well as refined analysis for process and mold optimization, and final design checking. Among its numerous capabilities, PAM-RTM allows non-isothermal process simulation and solid modeling required to analyze the resin flow through the thickness. Its new high performance solver available in the 2010 version ensures industrial computation time independently of the model size and complexity.

PAM-RTM accelerates time to market while reducing costs related to the tooling and injection/infusion process.

PAM-RTM offers a great variety of validated processes and allows determining the best combination of resins and fibers.